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Former LulzSec Hacker Turned Informant Avoids Further Jail Time

Avoiding further jail time, Hector Xavier Monsegur a hacktivist legend walked out of a federal court house in Manhattan on Tuesday.

The AP reports that U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said Monsegur's cooperation helped disrupt hundreds of cyber attacks and helped disrupt the hacker activist group Anonymous and essentially marked the end of LulzSec.

As we reported back in 2012, Monsegur, who is also known as "Sabu," pleaded guilty to carrying out cyber attacks against companies such as Paypal, eBay and MasterCard.

Today, because of his cooperation with investigators, Preska sentenced him to time served plus one year supervised release. Daniel Stuckey, a reporter for Vice, posted video of Monsegur walking free, while smoking a cigarette.

Anonymous, as you might imagine, was not very happy today. On one of their Twitter feeds, they called for the release of Jeremy Hammond, a powerful cybercriminal the FBI caught through Sabu. They called Sabu a "snitch" and many other things we could not repeat in this space.